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Irish regulator probes X over age checks, with 10% of turnover at stake

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Ireland’s media regulator has opened an investigation into whether X’s age assurance and parental controls meet the online safety code, with sanctions of up to EUR 20M or 10% of relevant turnover. X lost a High Court challenge to that code last July and was allowed to appeal it in January, so it is being […]

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Solid-state batteries just went into mass production. The line makes 6,000 packs a year

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ProLogium says it has begun mass-producing all-solid-state cells in Taiwan at 381 Wh/kg, verified by TUV Rheinland and tested against a Chinese all-solid-state standard. Its subsidised Dunkirk gigafactory broke ground in February and its published staging starts at 0.8 GWh in 2028, in a Europe that has already lost Northvolt. ProLogium says it has begun […]

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The Exploration Company raises $450m to build a rocket engine

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The Exploration Company has raised $450m. Most of it goes into something the company is not yet famous for. Not Nyx, the reusable capsule that has drawn the contracts and the SpaceX comparisons. An engine. Kate Duffy reported the round for Bloomberg. Founder and chief executive Hélène Huby told her why the balance falls that […]

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China put a 99.2% duty on a chemical chip fabs need

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China has imposed a cash deposit of up to 99.2% on imports of a Japanese chemical that chip fabs use to build the films inside logic and memory chips. The rate is close to prohibitive. It took effect on Tuesday. China’s Ministry of Commerce published the preliminary determination on 7 September as Announcement No. 37 […]

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Google and Accenture are putting 1,000 engineers inside client offices

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The chief executive of a consultancy with 799,000 staff has described what her clients are telling her about AI, and it is not a sales pitch. “We promised AI can do that,” Julie Sweet told the Wall Street Journal. “And they’re like, we get it, except it’s not happening, help us make it happen.” Sweet […]

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OpenAI just anchored an Australian company’s Malaysian data centres

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An Australian company will build data centres in Malaysia and fill them with American chips. It will sell the output to an American company. Its co-chief executive calls this the moment Asia-Pacific stops consuming intelligence and starts producing it. Firmus announced the partnership from Sydney on Tuesday. OpenAI will contract dedicated compute from two Firmus […]

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China has 70% of a material AI needs, IQE’s CEO warns, Bloomberg reports

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A Welsh chipmaker has just posted a 40% jump in revenue. Its shares are up 849% this year. And its chief executive has told an interviewer that the industry has a supply problem it cannot fully solve. Sofia Gerace reported the interview for Bloomberg. Jutta Meier runs IQE, based in Cardiff. She said access to […]

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Palantir gets £21m from Britain’s grid operator, no competition

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Britain’s publicly owned energy system operator has handed Palantir a £21.2m contract with no competition. The justification it filed is a plain description of why leaving will be difficult. Lindsay Clark reported the award for The Register on Tuesday. The underlying transparency notice sits on Find a Tender. It went up on 26 August. The […]

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Google made search worse in Europe, and said so out loud

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Google changed how search works in Europe on Tuesday. Then it told everyone the new version is worse. Foo Yun Chee reported the rollout for Reuters, which had the story first. The company is complying with an order from the European Commission, and it is doing so while describing the result as the biggest quality […]

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